easiness

Noun

Meaning

The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ease simplicity relaxation simpleness grace ability easy facility acceptance flexibility convenience brightness calm comfort encouragement
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Antonyms

fear difficulty controversy trouble anxiety burden
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Hypernyms

quality behavior conduct quietness tranquillity behaviour

Hyponyms

dreaminess languor effortlessness

Examples

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume

Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. David Hume

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. George Herbert

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated. Samuel Johnson

The Circle is a Geometrical Line, not because it may be express'd by an Æquation, but because its Description is a Postulate. It is not the Simplicity of the Æquation, but the Easiness of the Description, which is to determine the Choice of our Lines for the Construction of Problems. Isaac Newton

After the storm comes the easiness. Portuguese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

easily upset easily washed and dried easily wounded easing easing discomforts easing of tension